Social+Studies

__**Journals**__
This Week in Pictures. MSN This webpage collects major pictures from around the world week by week. Usually the pictures have to do with major stories from around the world. BIG WARNING!!! You NEED to check these pictures before blindly showing them in class. These are NOT pictures shown for a target audience of students. Some pictures are not appropriate and should not be shown in class. Sometimes MSN prompts a picture with a black screen with a warning about the picture, but they DO NOT do this every time. No sign-in required.

__**Timelines**__
__History Pin__ History Pin is a website where Google users can "Pin" pictures onto the same Map. This way, viewers can see pictures from the past and what they have taken. This website is a living timeline of pictures of the past and ones of current day. You need to have a Google Account to join.

time rime Time Rime is a website where you can create, view, and compare timelines. These timelines can do with anything that has to do with time. The website is free, but you have sign-in. If you buy an account, even more features are available.

__**Culture**__
Go Social Studies Go is a website created by a teacher for students and teachers everywhere. Under World Religions, this website has information and pictures on the following information: No sign-in required.
 * Religion**
 * Go Social Studies Go! Global Religions**
 * 1) African Animism
 * 2) Buddhism
 * 3) Judaism
 * 4) Islam
 * 5) Confucianism
 * 6) Christianity
 * 7) Daoism
 * 8) Shinto
 * 9) Hinduism

This website is a free educational resources for middle and high school, college, and instructors. You are able to pick different categories. Each category has a multitude of resources like videos, articles, primary sources, and pictures for you to choose. Be aware that you have to assess the level of the information on the website. You do not need a sign-in but it is a free option to have.
 * Hippo Campus: World Religions**

**__Economics__**
This website is a free educational resources for middle and high school, college, and instructors. You are able to pick different categories. Each category has a multitude of resources like videos, articles, primary sources, and pictures for you to choose. Economics is a newer topic and does not have as much as the other topics.Be aware that you have to assess the level of the information on the website. You do not need a sign-in but it is a free option to have.
 * __Hippo Campus: Economics__**

**__Geography__**
Go Social Studies Go! Geography! Go Social Studies Go is a website created by a teacher for students and teachers everywhere. Under the Geography area, students and teachers can find various information on different countries around the world. No sign-in required.

Jennifer Barnett's Social Studies Classroom - Map Games This wiki is run by another teacher. On this page, she has active links to several different Map Games including World, European, United States, and Middle Eastern Maps. She also has a link to printable maps. No sign-in required.

__**Government**__
American Presidency Project This data website was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 100,505 documents related to the study of the Presidency. Different information found on this website includes: data, documents, elections, media, and other various links. This information is higher leveled, but all important facts. No sign-in required.

Hippo Campus: American Government This website is a free educational resources for middle and high school, college, and instructors. You are able to pick different categories. Each category has a multitude of resources like videos, articles, primary sources, and pictures for you to choose. Be aware that you have to assess the level of the information on the website. You do not need a sign-in but it is a free option to have.

Sheppard's Software: Checks and Balances Game This is a game where students drag the correct information about Checks and Balances to the right branch. Students work with two branches at a time. If an answer is incorrect, the answer slides back to the bottom for the student to try again. This is a very simple and easy game to master. No sign-in required.

Sheppard's Software: Three Branches of Government Matching Game This matching game allows students to try and match the different jobs of the three branches of government. If the students are wrong, the answer zooms back to the bottom. If the students are correct, the answer stays under the branch it belongs to. This is a very simple and easy game to master. No sign-in required.

Three Branches of Government Game This is an interactive game where students are secret agents. The students must discover where the three branches are located in Washington DC (what buildings they conduct their work in) and what the different types of jobs the branches have. This is a higher level game, where if students answer too many questions wrong they start completely over. Students should be given a graphic organizer to keep track of their answers otherwise if they lose, they lose all their information on the game as well. No sign-in required.

__History__
Go Social Studies Go is a website created by a teacher for students and teachers everywhere. Under History, there are the following categories: No sign-in required.
 * Go Social Studies Go! History**
 * 1) Ancient History
 * 2) World History
 * 3) The Twentieth Century
 * 4) American History I
 * 5) American History II

Hippo Campus: American History, American History AP This website is a free educational resources for middle and high school, college, and instructors. You are able to pick different categories. Each category has a multitude of resources like videos, articles, primary sources, and pictures for you to choose. Be aware that you have to assess the level of the information on the website. You do not need a sign-in but it is a free option to have.

The People History On this website, you can find out news and events, prices and popular culture in history from 1920 to modern day. By clicking on a "book," the website links you to their informational page that has information from history, the dates of the states joining the US union, events from around the world, technology, along with a timeline down the right side of the page with dates and events. No sign-in required.

Teaching History Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible. There is A LOT of accessible content on this website from lessons, website reviews, the ability to ask other teacher questions, multimedia, and more. No sign-in required.

On the Trail of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Adventure

US Revolutionary War
Mission US: For Crown or Colony The year is 1770. You are Nat Wheeler, a fourteen year old apprentice in Boston, Massachusetts, when the Revolutionary War is about to break out. This Choose-Your-Own Adventure Game allows students to travel all over Boston during moments before the Boston Massacre. This is a great game but know that it takes at least two solid days of playing to reach the end of the game. The website has resources and activities for teachers as well. Students must sign-in to play, but it is free.

Liberty Kids Episodes Boston Tea Party 1/2 The Boston Tea Party 2/2 The Intolerable Acts 1/2 The Intolerable Acts 2/2 United We Stand 1/2 United We Stand 2/2 Liberty or Death 1/2 Liberty or Death 2/2 Midnight Ride 1/2 Midnight Ride 2/2 The Shot Heard Around the World 1/2 The Shot Heard Around the World 2/2 Green Mountain Boys 1/2 Green Mountain Boys 2/2

http://www.founding.com/ http://www.texaslre.org/games.html http://www.wartgames.com/themes/government.html http://www.congressforkids.net/Independence_index.htm

**US Civil War**
Mission US: Flight to Freedom The year is 1848. You are Lucy King, a fourteen year old slave in Kentucky. Lucy has to make the decision if she should run to freedom and what to do if she does. This Choose-Your-Own Adventure Game allows students to not only escape to Freedom, but to help others on that path as well. This is a great game but know that it takes at least two solid days of playing to reach the end of the game. The website has resources and activities for teachers as well. Students must sign-in to play, but it is free.

**World History**
World History for Us All This website offers whole planned units from: No sign-in required. Will print out as PDF's.
 * 1) Humans in the Universe--13 Billion - 200,000 Years ago
 * 2) Human Beings Almost Everywhere--200,000 - 10,000 Years Ago
 * 3) Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies--10,000 - 1000 BCE
 * 4) Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounter--1200 BCE - 500 CE
 * 5) Patterns of Inter-regional Unity--300 - 1500 CE
 * 6) The Great Global Convergence--1400 - 1800 CE
 * 7) Industrialization and Its Consequences--1750 - 1914 CE **In Development**
 * 8) A Half Century of Crisis--1900 - 1950 CE **In Development**
 * 9) Paradoxes of Global Acceleration--1945 - present CE **In Development**

World History Matters This website has a links to seven different websites. The seven websites on this website are: No sign-in required.
 * 1) World History Sources
 * 2) Women in World History
 * 3) Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
 * 4) Imaging the French Revolution
 * 5) Children and Youth in History
 * 6) Making the History of 1989
 * 7) Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

Our Documents History Teacher, Museum Box, Interactive History Quizzes Teacher Tap Khan Academy Teaching History World History Matters [|Smithsonian Museum of Natural History]